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Description

1. What is Engineering? (online)
a. Play an engineering game
b. Find example of engineering

Resources

- Mentimeter.com
- Kahoot.com
- Posters of engineering
- Permissions for participants to annotate

Instructions

Instructions
What is engineering?
As an introduction, set up a mentimeter presentation to get a sense of the girls understanding of engineering.
1. After logging into mentimeter.com, press new presentation and give your presentation a name.
2. Choose “world cloud” from the options on the right side.
3. On the right, change the question to “What is engineering?"
4. At the meeting, ask the girls to go to menti.com and enter he code that is at the top of your presentation.
5. As they are entering their answers, screenshare so that they can see the world cloud forming (see appendix one for what it will look like)

Play an engineering game: a Kahoot! Quiz to introduce them to the types of engineering.
1. Click the link https://create.kahoot.it/details/kinds-of-engineering/d9d42fb6-507e-4d39-9768-8dee48dc5f59
2. Log in or choose “play as guest”.
3. If you log in, press the play button and it will ask you to “assign” (girls play in their own time) or “teach” (playing live together as a unit). If most girls are on phones or tablets, “assign” is better. If they are on laptops/PCs, “teach” is better. If you choose to play as a guest, you can only “teach”.
4. Ask the girls to go to kahoot.it and enter the code that Kahoot! gives you. If you care using “teach” or live, screenshare so that the girls can see the questions and the answers.
5. Between the questions, there will be a quick definition of the type of engineering so that the girls understand it.

Find examples of engineering: Using posters to find engineering.
1. Screen share one of the posters in appendix 2.
2. Ask the girls to “annotate” the poster and circle any examples of engineering they can find.
a. On Zoom, to annotate, ask the girls to go to the top of the screen where it says, “leader is screen sharing” and go right to “view options”. In the drop-down menu, there should be an option called “annotate”. Once they press that, they will have drawing options and will be good to go!
3. If the screen gets too messy, go into the annotate menu and press “clear” and then “clear all”.
4. For more see “IGG Interest Badge Guide Engineering Option 01 (b)” on OGM.
Imagine Planet Earth in 50 years. Think of possible engineering solutions for future problems: a discussion in groups.
1. If your group is large, this activity is better done in breakout rooms.
2. In screenshare, choose the option to “share whiteboard”.
3. Ask the girls to “annotate” and write up what problems they think will be relevant in the future.
4. After they have come up with a few, ask them to think about what solutions to these problems could be and to continue annotating them on the whiteboard. Depending on how engaged the girls are on the topic, you could try asking them about the cost, how easy will it be to implement these changes, etc.
5. If you did this in breakout rooms, ask one girl in each group to choose the best idea and feedback it to the rest of the group.

Tags

• Covid-19
• Engineering badge
• interest badge
• online activity
• online meeting
• Steam
• STEM

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